Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain Volume 15

by Kieran Connell

Book Overview

In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and political cultures and drew upon them while navigating the inequalities of their locale. For those of the Windrush generation and their British-born children,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520300688
• ISBN13: 9780520300682
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"